Delft!
Amigos,
I'm finally in Delft. So far it has been lots of work and little time for myself, but no worrying. 3 months will generate enough good moments, I hope :)
Monday was quite a story. After having woken up at around 5:45h to catch my 9:00h flight to Amsterdam I landed here at around 12:00h. That's actually 40 minutes of delay but I don't know where they came from, since we had only 10 minutes of delay in Barcelona. After landing in Amsterdam and taking something to eat I ran into the train with my 30+kg of baggage to depart for Delft via Den Haag. Once at Delft I went by feet to the offices of Duwo. This was a little suicidal for my hand as the trip is not that short and the terrain (stone-roads mostly) is not the best to pull a 25kg bag. Once I got the apartment keys and got installed I was lucky to find a large supermarket just in front of the hostel. And surprisingly it opens until 22h. This I think is quite strange for a country where people have lunch at around 12h. I know of no supermarkets in Barcelona that open until after 21h. Anyway, since it was not too late at this moment (around 15h) I decided to go to the TUdelft building to see my advisor. So there I was, with a sequence of meetings until at 20h I finally went home, visited the supermarket, ate something and finally had time to sleep. I have prepared some photos of my new room:
For some reason or another my new sony camera decided not to be mounted within my opensuse 10.2 so I have to reboot into windows every time I want to collect new images. I've not been able so far to figure out why this happens. At some point the kernel prints a message such as "chose option 1 from 2 choices" or something like that. This seems a little strange and may be related to my problem but for now is not something I do care about. More interesting is how to setup all the internet things with TUDelft. Apart from the department you need an electronic association with the university. The university provides you a login/pass that you need not only to access some specific services, but also to access internet in general from the duwo hostels. The duwo connection itself is quite strange. It requires you to install an rpm (in the case of linux) to provide as special configuration of adsl (!) using a pppoe link. This rpm was later upgraded by opensuse 10.2 which installed a different version of the tool in which commands are named pppoe-start/stop/status/setup instead of adsl-start/stop/status/setup. This looks more logical than the adsl name since there is no adsl modem in all this process! Anyway, getting it working was a little more difficult than inserting the appropriate values in the adsl-setup script, but now it's working (otherwise I would not be writing this :) ) so I'm happy. I'll tell more stories soon :)
diary.close()
see you
I'm finally in Delft. So far it has been lots of work and little time for myself, but no worrying. 3 months will generate enough good moments, I hope :)
Monday was quite a story. After having woken up at around 5:45h to catch my 9:00h flight to Amsterdam I landed here at around 12:00h. That's actually 40 minutes of delay but I don't know where they came from, since we had only 10 minutes of delay in Barcelona. After landing in Amsterdam and taking something to eat I ran into the train with my 30+kg of baggage to depart for Delft via Den Haag. Once at Delft I went by feet to the offices of Duwo. This was a little suicidal for my hand as the trip is not that short and the terrain (stone-roads mostly) is not the best to pull a 25kg bag. Once I got the apartment keys and got installed I was lucky to find a large supermarket just in front of the hostel. And surprisingly it opens until 22h. This I think is quite strange for a country where people have lunch at around 12h. I know of no supermarkets in Barcelona that open until after 21h. Anyway, since it was not too late at this moment (around 15h) I decided to go to the TUdelft building to see my advisor. So there I was, with a sequence of meetings until at 20h I finally went home, visited the supermarket, ate something and finally had time to sleep. I have prepared some photos of my new room:
For some reason or another my new sony camera decided not to be mounted within my opensuse 10.2 so I have to reboot into windows every time I want to collect new images. I've not been able so far to figure out why this happens. At some point the kernel prints a message such as "chose option 1 from 2 choices" or something like that. This seems a little strange and may be related to my problem but for now is not something I do care about. More interesting is how to setup all the internet things with TUDelft. Apart from the department you need an electronic association with the university. The university provides you a login/pass that you need not only to access some specific services, but also to access internet in general from the duwo hostels. The duwo connection itself is quite strange. It requires you to install an rpm (in the case of linux) to provide as special configuration of adsl (!) using a pppoe link. This rpm was later upgraded by opensuse 10.2 which installed a different version of the tool in which commands are named pppoe-start/stop/status/setup instead of adsl-start/stop/status/setup. This looks more logical than the adsl name since there is no adsl modem in all this process! Anyway, getting it working was a little more difficult than inserting the appropriate values in the adsl-setup script, but now it's working (otherwise I would not be writing this :) ) so I'm happy. I'll tell more stories soon :)
diary.close()
see you
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